Can't reconnect after Timeout: ReconnectAndRejoin() failed.

meredityman

I am developing a multi-user VR experience. We are using PUN v2 in Unity and a Photon OnPremise server instance. For some reason we get very frequent timeouts and I can't find a way to reconnect and rejoin the room after a disconnection.

If I use the PhotonNetwork.ReconnectAndRejoin() method I get this error:

ReconnectAndRejoin() failed. It seems the client doesn't have any previous authentication token to re-connect.

If I try to connect normally, I am told that the Client is already connecting, or that the player is already in the room, or that the room is full, depending on the order of the callbacks.

As a sidenote, NetworkClientState always seems to return ConnectingToGameServer.

Any pointer as to what could be going wrong would be very appreciated. Code snippet below:

public override void OnConnectedToMaster()
{
	Debug.Log("Joined Master...");

	PhotonNetwork.JoinLobby();
}

public override void OnJoinedLobby()
{
	Debug.Log("Joined Lobby...");

	RoomOptions options = new RoomOptions();
	options.EmptyRoomTtl = 30000;
	options.PlayerTtl    = 120000;
	options.MaxPlayers   = 2;
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	PhotonNetwork.JoinOrCreateRoom("Default", options, TypedLobby.Default);
}


public override void OnJoinedRoom()
{
	if (playerPrefab != null)
		PhotonNetwork.Instantiate(playerPrefab.name, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, 0);

	NetworkingSpawner spawner = FindObjectOfType<NetworkingSpawner>();
	if (spawner != null)
		spawner.OnNetworkingStarted();
}

public override void OnDisconnected(DisconnectCause cause)
{
	Debug.LogWarning("Disconnect.." + cause);
	if (cause == DisconnectCause.ClientTimeout)
		PhotonNetwork.ReconnectAndRejoin();
}

....

void Connect()
{
	Debug.Log("Try connect...");
	if (!PhotonNetwork.IsConnected)
	{
		PhotonNetwork.ConnectUsingSettings();
	}
}

JohnTube

Hi @meredityman,

Thank you for choosing Photon!

As you can read here on the list of main differences between Photon Cloud and Photon Server v4.0.29.11263:

Ther server does not fully support quick rejoin feature (ReconnectAndRejoin) as it does not implement session tokens.

What you could do is:

- always cache the room name on the client.
- call Reconnect to recover from unexpected disconnect or just ConnectUsingSettings or another method you use to connect
- then once reconnected call RejoinRoom.